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Tyra Banks Was Rejected By Six Modelling Agencies

Darpan News Desk IANS, 08 Nov, 2015 02:07 PM
    Supermodel Tyra Banks says she was rejected by six agencies at the beginning of her modelling career and found it tough because she was told they "already had a black girl".
     
    Asked what doors were locked to her before she found fame, Banks told Glamour magazine: "Oh, so many. There was a door that was locked because I was a young black model and the first six agencies I knocked at said no - I think four of the six said, 'We already have a black girl'." 
     
    "And then once I was successful, designers were like, 'You're getting too thick'. When I wanted to be a television producer, I had a lot of people tell me: 'Oh, you're a model, you could never do that. You walk runways in your underwear'."
     
    The 41-year-old decided to go back to university because she wanted to have a self-funded company, reports femalefirst.co.uk.
     
    "I'm obsessed with ownership. I want to have the say, not just a say. So, I needed to have the tools. I want to be a really strong leader," she said.

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